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The Shield and the Sabre The Desert Rats in the Gulf 1990-01
Transporting 35,000 British troops and their equipment from Europe to Saudi Arabia was a huge operation. This book is the British Army's account of its involvement in the containment of Iraqi aggression and the liberation of Kuwait. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 460674088
- The Shield and the Sabre The Desert Rats in the Gulf 1990-01
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Tokugawa Religion
Argues that Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism are more responsible for Japan's current economic success than contact with the West, and discusses Japanese religion and culture - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 460835551
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Teach Yourself Personal Finance in 24 Hours
This step-by-step guide shows--in 24 simple, one-hour lessons--how easy it isto put one's money in order and manage it safely into the new millennium. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461107393
- Teach Yourself Personal Finance in 24 Hours
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Frommer's Florida 2000
Tourism to Florida is booming, with the state hosting a record-high 48.7 million visitors in 1998! It's a hot destination for overseas visitors, honeymooners, and families alike. Frommer's Florida is completely up to date on all the latest developments, with more maps than ever before, a full rundown on all the best beveryes, the inside scoop on package deal, the latest on Orlando, and even tips on how to enjoy spring training. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461107406
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Inside Corporate Innovation
The new wave of organizational innovations involves new types of arrangements between individuals and corporations. It is likely to continue to produce new organizational forms, spanning the entire range of combinations of markets and hierarchies and involving complex, sometimes protracted negotiation processes between individuals and corporate identities. Such negotiation processes, we believe, will be an increasingly pervasive aspect of corporate life and an important mechanism for facilitating the new integration of individualism and big business through corporate entrepreneurship. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461107481
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A Guide to the Elements
Begins with an introductory section that explains some of the basic concepts of chemistry and traces the history and development of the periodic table of the elements. Includes a comprehensive list of informative websites. Softcover available. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461717837
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Pronunciation and Communication Oral Skills for Speakers of English as a Second Language
This book combines learning how to actually pronounce words in communication messages, with functional communication interactions. Target sounds featuring diverse spelling patterns are analyzed and practiced aloud. Two sentences stressing the target sound as used in open questions, closed questions, listing, asserting, and emphasizing are drilled. Feedback is given and appropriate oral communication strategies are discovered by referring to the context of the message. The third sentence relates to a visual cue of people interacting. Students give every other feedback about any mispronunciations and refer to pronunciation charts to find alternate verbal and nonverbal strategies suitable to the speaker's intention, listener's needs and purpose of the message. After learning sounds, students demonstrate their skills in oral presentations featuring observable behaviors as criteria to assess the degree of communication proficiency they have achieved. The text also includes unbiased performance-based Listening Lab and Speech Center Lab Interaction forms used to facili - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461400306
- Pronunciation and Communication Oral Skills for Speakers of English as a Second Language
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Political Ideologies Their Origins and Impact
This book explains political thought over the past three centuries. It describes political ideologies within the context of the social, economic and political circumstances in which they developed. It provides the reader with a complete understanding of politics and how various ideologies relate to his/her own life . the spectrum of political attitudes, nationalism, the evolution of democracy and the liberal democratic process, capitalism, anarchism, Marxism, socialism, communism, fascism and national socialism, ideologies in the developing world, feminism and ecologism/environmentalism. For anyone interested in politics or political theory of the USA or other countries. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461716746
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Tough Decisions Cases in Medical Ethics
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD. Places medical and non-medical readers in realistic situations where they experience difficulties of making tough medical decisions. Cases are composites of actual cases the authors have seen or managed. Concluding chapters discuss major theories of medical ethics. Softcover, hardcover also available. DNLM: Ethics, Medical. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461114893
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Sick Societies
An anthropologist challenges the myth of the Noble Savage, reviewing the actual social conditions in the developed and developing worlds and examining such phenomena as mental illness, poverty, disease, deviance, criminality, suicide, revolution, and more. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461398570
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Paul A Critical Life
Traditionally the Acts of the Apostles has provided the framework for biographies of the Apostle Paul. In recent years, however, the historical value of the Acts has come into question. Many scholars argue that, despite the accuracy of many details, the text as a whole reflects the interests of Luke rather than objective reality. This book presents a completely new, and much more vivid and dramatic, account of the life of Paul than any before. While continuing to give consideration to the Acts, Murphy-O'Connor reconstructs the apostle's life -- from his childhood in Taursus and his years as a student in Jerusalem, to the successes and failures of his ministry -- from his own writings. Reinforcing his critical analysis of Paul's letters with close attention to archaeology and contemporary texts, Murphy-O'Connor not only charts Paul's movements, but extracts a new understanding of his motives and the social and cultural aspects of his ministry. Most important of all, this biography transforms a fountain of theological ideas into a human being. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461402867
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Muslims on the Americanization Path?
There are now more Muslims in America than in Kuwait, Qatar, and Libya combined. It is the second largest religion in France and the third in Britain, Germany, and North America. Leaving aside immigration and conversion, birth rate alone ensures that in the first part of the twenty-first century Islam will replace Judaism as the second largest religion in the United States. Like all religious and ethnic minorities in America, Muslims must confront a host of difficult questions. Can they become part of a pluralistic American society without sacrificing their identity? Can Muslims be Muslims in a state that is not governed by Islamic law? Will the American legal system protect Muslim religious and cultural differences? Is there a contradiction between demanding equal rights and insisting on maintaining a distinctively separate identity? In this wide-ranging volume, fourteen distinguished scholars take an in-depth took at these issues and examine the varied responses and opinions of the Muslim community. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461403176
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Moral Believing Animals Human Personhood and Culture
What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory. Smith suggests that human beings have a peculiar set of capacities and proclivities that distinguishes them signifcantly from other animals on this planet. Despite the vast differences in humanity between cultures and across history, no matter how differently people narrate their lives and histories, there remains an underlying structure of human personhood that helps to order human culture, history, and narration. Drawing on important recent insights in moral philosophy, epistemology, and narrative studies, Smith argues that humans are animals who have an inescapable moral and spiritual dimension. They cannot avoid a fundamental moral orientation in life and this, says Smith, has profound consequences f - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461403271
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